Concept Building and Discussion 2

Course Overview

In this course, students will build on the communicative strategies they acquired in Communication Strategies 1 and 2 through a serious of individual and team activities related to their target field of study. Emphasis will be placed on negotiation, discussion and problem-solving in a group setting, and the language skills needed to gather information from a variety of sources, summarize that information, and present results and conclusions to an audience. After completing the course, students should be able to find information on a topic through library and Internet sources, discuss this information in a group and present findings with proper source acknowledgment to an audience in well-formed sentences with pronunciation and intonation comprehensible to an international audience.

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Information

Materials

• Textbook:  Concept Building and Discussion — Applications
• Academic Word Lists

Assessment and Grading

• Grading system information
• Student Performance Record sheet

Statement on Academic Honesty

• Information about responsibilities and expectations relating to academic honesty can be found here.

Useful Research Links

•  Google
  • Main Page (in English)
  • Scholar
• Waseda University Library

Further information

• TOEIC Test information
• Absence Policy
• Placement information